Houston gets snubbed by NASA

DATELINE DALLAS – Houston, you appear to have a problem.

This cross-state rival to Dallas awoke this morning to the news that it won’t be getting one of the recently retired space shuttles from NASA, even though Houston was the mother ship for the space agency – Houston’s Johnson Space Centre was “mission control” for the space program.

The cities who will get the retired shuttles – which will certainly enhance their tourism industries – were Washington (for the Smithsonian Museum, of course), New York. Los Angeles and the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, home base for the shuttles and from where the space ships were launched.

I can certainly understand why Florida and Washington got one each, but New York and Los Angeles?

Did the shuttles even fly over those cities on reentry?